Sentence examples for evolutionary function from inspiring English sources

Such displays may have an evolutionary function.

Yet they never ask what evolutionary function this species-wide phenomenon serves.

Our primitive fight-or-flight response holds an evolutionary function for us to stay alive, and it springs into action the minute we leave our mother's body.

Dr. Nesse and Dr. Gut are not the first to ponder what evolutionary function depression -- and its close relative, sadness or low mood -- might serve.

Re "Logic of Female Orgasm": The good doctor and biologist Elisabeth Lloyd may be overlooking an alternative explanation in arguing that the female orgasm has no evolutionary function.

But what is the evolutionary function of the experience of the ineffable and irreducible?

They accomplish the same evolutionary function as religion: defining groups, coordinating behavior and suppressing selfishness in favor of cooperation.

From Colleen: I wonder if there is an evolutionary function in this: in times of little food and a population in trouble, future-child-bearing girls are more valuable for sustaining the population.

A study of the relationship between Darwin's theories of evolution and Victorian literature suggests that stories serve an evolutionary function, encouraging individuals to work together and resist base impulses.

Finally, there is the evolutionary function: humans and pre-humans who made the difficult choice to abandon a child when it was really not viable, were more, not less, likely to raise surviving offspring in the end.

But what are we to make of a study cited by Buss that maintains domestic violence is a male evolutionary function to control the female partner and deter her from infidelity?